Rob Janssen

Gaurav Sharma, To SQL or NoSQL, that is the Question

Just finished reading NoSQL Distilled by Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage. It’s an easy-going read, doesn’t bog down the reader in technical details, and admirably addressed some lingering questions/uncertainties I had regarding the use of database technologies for F6.

Framebase • The best programmers are the quickest to Google

How Domains Became Backwards

Internet URLs, file system paths and IP addresses usually get more specific as you move towards the right hand side. This is a clearly a byproduct of the left-to-right language of the designers of these systems. So why is it that this website is david.newgas.net and not net.newgas.david?

xml-attacks

One Day Builds: Adam Savage Makes Something Wonderful from Scratch

Watch Adam build, from start to finish, a stylized box to carry and display his Blade Runner Blaster prop replica. The entire project took less than one day ...

What is NoSQL and is it pornography?

But we can't blame MySQL for trying to buy into the NoSQL hype by coopting a poorly defined term. If there is an overhyped area right now, it's clearly Big Data in general, and under that heading, NoSQL is the worst offender (leading by a nose over Hadoop).

I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora.

And got this. Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.

Adobe Photoshop Source Code

When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

300 million users and move to WebKit

By Bruce Lawsonbrucelawson. Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:00:00 PM On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine.

How can I register my context menu command for all file types *except* one, or other complex conditionals?

We saw that you can register your context menu under * to make it apply to all files. But what if you want it to apply to all files except one? For example, your command might be "Convert to Widget" but you don't want it to appear for .widget files because that would be redundant.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.